FM2+ Motherboards sporting the A88X chipset started appearing in October 2013, but the improved functionality over the latest FM2 motherboards only became truly apparent with the release of the Kaveri line of APUs in January 2014. Add to that the recent release of AMD drivers supporting the Mantle API, and the FM2+ motherboards start to make sense. Benchmark Reviews has the AMD A10-7850K APU and a couple of FM2+ motherboards on hand. This article is dedicated to reviewing the ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ Motherboard to discover what sets it apart from the rest of the FM2+ crowd.

ASUS recently refreshed its 7-inch MeMO Pad 7 tablet with Intel’s new Atom Z3745 Bay Trail-based processor. Having overcome its rocky start, the latest generation of Atom processors is building a reputation for power efficiency and computational chops. Despite its early days in ill-fated netbooks, today's Atom looks to be a good fit for tablets and smartphones and sports new-found graphics horsepower that is up to the task for these types of devices.

We checked out the ASUS MeMO Pad 7 ME176C, which comes in at a relatively affordable $149.99, in light of competing tablets in this category...

Audio-Technica have been creating products for over 50 years now and in the process created quite a name for themselves in that market. Recently they took their first steps into the gaming marketplace with the AG1 and ADG1. The key difference between the two is open back/closed back and today we have the AG1 closed back gaming headset for review.

be quiet! are well-known in the industry for doing one thing incredibly well, making super quiet performance products; their power supplies, fans and CPU coolers have won many awards for their whisper quiet acoustics and their high-end cooling. The main downside with be quiet! products is that they’re really high-quality means their price tags often wander into the premium budget ranges, of course you do get what you pay for, but not everyone has £70+ to spend on their CPU cooler, nor do they want to. The Shadow Rock Slim looks set to address the price concern by offering the legendary be quiet! performance in terms of cooling and aesthetics, but at the much more affordable price range of around £30.

Many of the be quiet! coolers on the market today are some of the best air coolers money can buy; they all feature be quiet! ultra-premium grade Silent Wings fans, flawless quality and great aesthetics that go a long way to compliment the high levels of performance they offer. Just how much of these things gets lost in a budget model such as the Shadow Rock Slim remains to be seen, but I have a feeling be quiet! don’t know how to make an inferior product, so I suspect this will also be one of the best coolers in its price bracket; just like every other product they produce.

As you can see from the specification below, the cooler support all major socket types for both Intel and AMD. It comes equipped with a single 135mm SilentWings 1400rpm fan and aluminium fin construction.

Black is really an absence of color, or light, all there was before time began. Now, there is the Z97X-GAMING G1 WIFI-BK, Gigabyte's top-tiered Black Edition board. So powerful it can create black holes itself, the Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING G1 WIFI-BK is here to take your gaming experience to a whole new level.

Gamers are always curious to know what benefit they get from an expensive CPU in terms of frames per second. In this series of articles we will have a look at different CPUs, running at different clock speeds and with each article we will compare two CPUs. These CPUs will be place in a test system that's been equipped with no less than three high-end graphics cards in order to open the GPU bottleneck.﻿

A while ago Nvidia launched the GeForce GTX Titan Black. We never reviewed it as it was supposed to be solely a professional series product, not intended for gamers. Nvidia's Board partners however have been rereleasing this product as a gaming product, as well as Nvidia who is plugging the product in their gaming benchmarks on their own website ever since Watch Dogs was released. As such, we figured we need to review this puppy as well. So today we test the reference Geforce GTX Titan Black.

For those that wonder what is different inbetween all the high-end enthusiast products from Nvidia, really it is all rather simple. The Titan Black is the Geforce GTX 780 Ti, with two differences:

It has 6 GB instead of 3 GB memory It has double precision enabled (totally unimportant for gamers).

OCZ like most other manufactures can’t just focus on just top of the line or budget products. Its important to cover a wide range of products to make sure you have something to meet all of your customers price and performance expectations. A good example of this was the Vector 150. They obviously also have the Vertex 450 that I reviewed previously. OCZ took the design that the Vertex 450 and original Vector both shared, kept the Barefoot 3 controller, and swapped out the NAND from 25nm IMFT MLC NAND to Toshiba's 19nm MLC NAND. In other words the Vector 150 replaced the original Vector. OCZs Vector drives are their enthusiast focused drives while the Vertex drives are their top of the line mainstream drives. Let’s dig in and see what sets them apart.

The new SanDisk Extreme Pro Series of SSDs feature the same controller as the Extreme II, albeit with updated firmware, slightly higher clock speeds and new 64Gbit 19nm MLC NAND. As such, their specifications have been bumped slightly as well as seeing a huge increase in the warranty length thatâs been jacked up to 10 full years. Read on to see how the 240GB, 480GB and 960GB SSDs in the SanDisk Extreme Pro Series perform!

How fast will Core i7-4790K go in the hands of a respected system integrator? It's fair to say that we weren't overly enamoured by the Intel Devil's Canyon processors. The two Haswell Refresh chips, Core i5-4690K and Core i7-4790K, were launched last month with heightened frequencies but didn't, at first glance, live up to their promise in terms of overclocking headroom.

Cast your memory back to our initial analysis and you'll recall that Intel uses a 'next generation polymer thermal interface material' (NGPTIM) between die and heatspreader that's said to enable cooler and higher-performing parts. This, combined with extra on-chip capacitors for smoother power delivery, should in theory make the 22nm chips more willing than earlier Haswell processors when it comes to high-end overclocking.

That wasn't necessarily the case with our first review samples, as both the Core i5 and Core i7 parts struggled to run stable when pushed beyond 4.4GHz. Not a great return by any means, and disappointing for enthusiasts who were hoping to see speeds in excess of 5GHz with simple air cooling.

Titan is a known brand in the pc hardware and accessories scene.Not only because of their massive aluminum frame fans and various accessories.Meanwhile, the Taiwanese company also produces a wide range of CPU coolers.One of them is the Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition.We will find out in this review, if it remains just as cool as the eponymous Fenris Wolf in the far north.